Take a sip.

Citta

" Whether sipping a glass of Brunello, savouring a piece of chocolate, going shopping for a suede shirt or silk underwear, making love, or hitting your thumb with a hammer, Enlightenment is there.
There is no need to look for it other than where you are. "

Ngak'chang Rinpoche.

I_AM_THAT

"That which we call 'I' is just impermanent, ownerless karma rolling along. Don't take it personally."

- Lama Surya Das, "Surya Says"

pegembara

"I tell you, friend, that it is not possible by traveling to know or see or reach a far end of the cosmos where one does not take birth, age, die, pass away, or reappear. But at the same time, I tell you that there is no making an end of suffering & stress without reaching the end of the cosmos. Yet it is just within this fathom-long body, with its perception & intellect, that I declare that there is the cosmos, the origination of the cosmos, the cessation of the cosmos, and the path of practice leading to the cessation of the cosmos."

Rohitassa Sutta
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.045.than.html

Citta

Sadhu !

TBRulh

Thanks for those quotes. I'm in law school right now and it's getting very hard. In my weaker moments these last few weeks, I've been thinking that I can't do it, I'm not strong or smart enough, I'm going to fail.

I realize, however, that these are extremely egotistical thoughts, all centering on me in relation to others. There is no me. There are no others. There is only the present moment of studying, reading, and exams. Victory and failure are both imposters. Whether A or F, enlightenment is there. All I can do is what I do, and try not to worry about the rest.

Thanks again.